The Life
(1903) Pablo Ruiz Picasso
The Cleveland Museum
of Art (Ohio
I
can’t help being overawed by Picasso’s enigmatic way of depicting human
feelings. This painting belongs to his Blue Period, and it is considered to be
the central work of it.
The scene takes part in a painter’s studio.
There, a naked young couple is confronting a woman who is rocking an asleep
child in her arms. The three figures have got bare feet, which is very
characteristic of the artist’s paintings.
In
the background there are two canvases leaning against the wall. They both cover
the central part of the scene, between the couple and the mother. One of them
evokes the sadness of loneliness; the other, on top of it, shows the comfort of
human warmth.
The
central figures, in The Greco style, are a shade of blue. The bareness of the
place, the sketches in the bluish background, the timeless atmosphere…all of
them are features of a painting which is taking a breath to consider feelings
attached to vital process: love, motherhood, eroticism, suffering, reality and
romanticism.
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